Ok. It looks like your settings are correct according to what I've found,
but I'm in the US, and not familiar with Orange.
Has your account ever worked?
I have tried to telnet into the server, but have not been able to connect.
Perhaps you need to contact Orange.
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Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
"TLM" <terry@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#8f83PClIHA.2368@xxxxxx
Quote:
> thanks have checked how it is written in server name no spaces must be a
> quirk of the copy and paste i did
>
> "Dave" <dave@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%231HQgJClIHA.4140@xxxxxx Quote:
>> If that's an accurate quoting of the error message, you need to remove
>> the spaces from the server name.
>> SMTP.orangehome.co.uk
>>
>>
>> <http://help.orange.co.uk/documentDisplay.do?clusterName=DefaultCluster&preview=1&groupId=1&page=&docType=1006&resultType=5002&docProp=$solution_id&docPropValue=kb79>
>>
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>> Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
>> http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
>>
>>
>> "TLM" <terry@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:#c1sYEClIHA.4712@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> get the following error message each time i try to send emails from
>>> windows live mail . have checked all the settings and are as on all the
>>> help screens
>>> 'The connection to the server has failed . Subject test conection ' ,
>>> Account : ' orange ' , Server : ' SMTP . orangehome . co. uk ' ,
>>> Protocol : SMTP , Port : 25 , Secure ( SSL ) : No , Socket Error : ,
>>> Error Number : 0x800CCC0E'
>> >